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> Unless you run for President, nobody is going to bother reading through your thousands of comments to stitch together your identity This comment feels a lot
by littlestymaar 1y ago
> Unless you run for President, nobody is going to bother reading through your thousands of comments to stitch together your identity
This comment feels a lot like what someone would say in the early internet, but for the past decade the targeted ads business has been doing that in real time with all the data you give it. And it has spread out of ads, insurance and credit companies are now buying this kind of info too.
You have more to hide than you believe.
- mixmastamyk 1y agoReminds me of a 10-15 year old post on Ubuntu forums, loudly proclaiming that no one will ever need an outbound firewall on Linux. How quickly circumstances change.
- littlestymaar 1y agoWhy do I need a firewall on Linux though?
- mixmastamyk 1y agoThese days lots of (younger?) developers see nothing wrong with invasive telemetry collection, knowing no other world. Sometimes sketchy companies buy a project outright, desiring “monetization.” Merely using FLOSS software is no longer a complete solution—firewalls and other sandboxes are needed to enforce the user’s wishes. Why they’re built into flatpak etc. Reputable distros are trustworthy but might overlook something occasionally.
- SketchySeaBeast 1y agoWhich is horrifying, but also extremely questionable. Reddit Ads as of late have been trying to sell me things I am in no way interested in, like miniature piano keyboards, ray-bans, and romance novels about a sheriff who is also a shape shifting bear. These advertisers are supposed to have incredibly insight into our very souls but they are constantly whiffing. Although, I wonder if it's more terrifying for everyone to have belief in such a flawed system, what do we do when the "omniscient" AI starts continually gets things wrong?